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Article History

Received: 9 June 2023

Revised: 17 August 2023

Accepted: 18 August 2023

First Online: 15 September 2023

Declarations

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: Andreas Hermann has received funding from the European Social Fonds, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Hermann und Lilly Schilling-Stiftung für medizinische Forschung im Stifterverband. He has received honoraria for presentations/advisory boards/ from Amylyx, Desitin and IFT Pharma. He has received royalties from Elsevier Press and Kohlhammer. Makus Joos’ affiliation “Interactive Minds” is a provider of ETCS in the region of Dresden. He was not involved and had no influence in the blinded data analysis. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or the decision to publish the results.

: The study was approved by the institutional review board at the Technische Universität Dresden (EK 329082017, EK 393122012).

: In accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, all subjects gave informed consent. For patients who were not able to write, consent was confirmed in writing through a witness in the presence of the patient after reading and explaining the protocol and giving the patient the opportunity to ask questions via ETCS.